Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

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• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Inspiration
  • Mysterious
  • Blessing

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Knowledge
  • Library
  • Mysterious

• I'm glad I was in the Navy.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Glad
  • Navy

• It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Understanding
  • Imagination
  • Literature

• Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • She
  • Truth
  • Today

• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called - called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.

  

  Jack London
  • May
  • Book
  • Reading

• The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Mysterious

• The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the underside of things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm. - Εν Θεος - A God within.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • God
  • Power
  • Words

• If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Ignorance
  • Mysterious

• The alchemy of a fight card is a mysterious thing. Even the most meticulous matchmaking can sometimes misfire.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Mysterious

• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Mysterious

• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Dance

• God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Great
  • God
  • Nature

• I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Purpose
  • Mysterious

• Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Born
  • Strange

• Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

  

  Billy Bush
  • Game
  • Basketball

• I love running and good running shoes.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Good
  • Running
  • Shoes

• Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Women
  • Help
  • Support

• We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!'

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Bunch
  • Hello
  • Gall

• My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Mysterious